What is Delaware’s current wage and personal-services limitation period?

Use a covered Superior Court claim for wages, salary, overtime or listed work and personal-services benefits, accruing on or after April 26, 2023. Use an event after June 30, 2020 with no applicable toll or alternative period. Accrual must also be on or after April 26, 2023.

The text also covers the described damages, interest and penalties resulting from nonpayment. Identify the asserted obligation and its accrual, not merely the employee’s termination.

84 Del. Laws, chapter 20 replaced one year with two. Section 2 applies the change to claims accruing on or after the Act’s effective date; the Act was approved April 26, 2023.

An earlier claim needs its historical statutory edition. A federal wage cause of action or another statutory remedy does not acquire the Delaware period merely because wages are involved.

1. Use a covered Superior Court claim for wages, salary, overtime or listed work and personal-services benefits, accruing on or after April 26, 2023. Use an event after June 30, 2020 with no applicable toll or alternative period. Accrual must also be on or after April 26, 2023.
2. Exclude the established event day under Superior Court Civil Rule 6(a). Count the stated calendar years or months under 1 Del. C. § 302(13), (24). Intermediate weekends and holidays remain inside these long periods. Apply the eligible final-day rule after the calendar interval.
3. Check the actual final holiday, court closure and county-specific availability.
4. Preserve the actual initiating complaint, praecipe, applicable fees and completed transmission. Complete required service separately.

For the disclosed Superior Court branch, Rule 6(a) excludes the event day and rolls a final Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday or Prothonotary closure to the next open day. Common Pleas Rule 6(a) supplies its own equivalent final-day treatment for the disclosed forcible-entry branch. Section 501 defines statutory holidays and weekend observance. Sunday July 4, 2027 is observed on Monday July 5. Sussex County Return Day is a separate half-day holiday in general-election years; the bundled calendar does not determine that county’s filing availability. Check actual closures and declared holidays separately.

These calculators accept selected events after June 30, 2020. They do not model historical emergency extensions. Administrative Order 7 paragraph (7) extended the specified deadlines otherwise expiring March 23 through June 30, 2020 through July 1, 2020. It expressly did not extend or toll deadlines outside that expiration window. This scope refusal does not establish that an actual claim is barred. Wage claims also require accrual on or after April 26, 2023.

Fictitious example

Use a covered Superior Court claim for wages, salary, overtime or listed work and personal-services benefits, accruing on or after April 26, 2023. Use an event after June 30, 2020 with no applicable toll or alternative period. Accrual must also be on or after April 26, 2023. Fictitious established facts. Use a covered Superior Court claim for wages, salary, overtime or listed work and personal-services benefits, accruing on or after April 26, 2023. Use an event after June 30, 2020 with no applicable toll or alternative period. Accrual must also be on or after April 26, 2023. The selected event is August 2, 2025. No additional actual closure, toll, agreement or different statutory branch applies.

Fictitious established facts. This result applies only to the disclosed component. It does not decide accrual, classification, tolling, contractual terms, historical applicability or whether the required act occurred.

Prospective applicability

The two-year preset refuses accrual before April 26, 2023. It does not revive an older claim by applying the current period.

Accrual evidence

Preserve the unpaid obligation and legally established accrual for each claimed item. Termination is not automatically the statute’s event.

Distinct remedies

Classify the actual cause of action before choosing section 8111 rather than assuming all employment disputes share its period.

Historical statutory and emergency scope

These calculators accept selected events after June 30, 2020. They do not model historical emergency extensions. Administrative Order 7 paragraph (7) extended the specified deadlines otherwise expiring March 23 through June 30, 2020 through July 1, 2020. It expressly did not extend or toll deadlines outside that expiration window. This scope refusal does not establish that an actual claim is barred. Wage claims also require accrual on or after April 26, 2023.

• Establish the applicable edition and actual legal facts independently.
• The disclosed calculation does not resolve a different statutory branch, a foreign shorter period or an unmodeled toll.

• Use a covered Superior Court claim for wages, salary, overtime or listed work and personal-services benefits, accruing on or after April 26, 2023. Use an event after June 30, 2020 with no applicable toll or alternative period. Accrual must also be on or after April 26, 2023.
• The text also covers the described damages, interest and penalties resulting from nonpayment. Identify the asserted obligation and its accrual, not merely the employee’s termination.
• 84 Del. Laws, chapter 20 replaced one year with two. Section 2 applies the change to claims accruing on or after the Act’s effective date; the Act was approved April 26, 2023.
• An earlier claim needs its historical statutory edition. A federal wage cause of action or another statutory remedy does not acquire the Delaware period merely because wages are involved.
• The two-year preset refuses accrual before April 26, 2023. It does not revive an older claim by applying the current period.
• Preserve the unpaid obligation and legally established accrual for each claimed item. Termination is not automatically the statute’s event.
• Classify the actual cause of action before choosing section 8111 rather than assuming all employment disputes share its period.
• Preserve the actual initiating complaint, praecipe, applicable fees and completed transmission. Complete required service separately. Superior Court Rule 3(a) requires the initiating complaint and praecipe, with applicable filing requirements. For covered electronic filing, Administrative Directive 2007-6 procedure 6(a) uses successful transmission recorded by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Preserve transmission and acceptance, including any rejection and timely correction. Filing does not itself complete service of original process. Chancery Rule 5(d) separately uses midnight for an original complaint or specified expedited papers and 5:00 p.m. for other ordinary papers. Do not import that different filing boundary into Superior Court.